I’ll see what I can do though I have limited time. (don’t we all) Send one or two through the comments on my ‘about’ page. but make sure you have worked the poems and changed anything you are not happy with. have you had anyone comment on your poems like that before?

well, maybe we have. in some places. but Aus certainly seems to have gone backwards in the last 15 years. but it went a long way forward prior to that. new leader now though. he is walking a tightrope between the extremes. but maybe…

We have a beautiful country, there is no real need for the terrible things done (or the good things not done). No real need beyond the overarching need (greed) of some. The drum beats on, the sound muffled, the song lyrics changed for the benefit of the already self-beneficent.

as I said too another commenter, I tend to think it is cyclical. reaction and counter-reaction. Howard reacting to growing political correctness, for e.g. and some of the population happy to follow. leaders are so important, ridiculously.

I do agree, two steps forward, one back. I remember, about twenty years ago, seeing a Russian painting prodigy, about ten years old, who painted goodies and baddies. She was asked, ‘Who wins, the goodies or the baddies?’ and she answered, ‘Over all, the goodies win, or we wouldn’t be here by now.’ There is always good and bad, progress, and a few u turns.